For Honour and Country

For Honour and Country PDF Author: Edmond Chiu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922454768
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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Many Chinese Australians proudly enlisted and fought in WWII. They served truly and their stories of service, told here, reveal their patriotic determination and instances of outstanding courage. Some were to sacrifice their lives for their country.

For Honour and Country

For Honour and Country PDF Author: Edmond Chiu
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781922454768
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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Many Chinese Australians proudly enlisted and fought in WWII. They served truly and their stories of service, told here, reveal their patriotic determination and instances of outstanding courage. Some were to sacrifice their lives for their country.

Duty, Honor, Country

Duty, Honor, Country PDF Author: Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801862939
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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Goodpaster.-- "Journal of Higher Education"

Duty, Honor, Country

Duty, Honor, Country PDF Author: Mickey Herskowitz
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 141853076X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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A profile of the Bush political clan patriarch—who he was and what he stood for, the examples he set, the events he shared, and the lives he touched. Prescott Bush is the only person in US history to be father of a US President, grandfather of a US President, and grandfather of a state governor. Duty, Honor, Country is more than a biography of the U.S. Senator from Connecticut, although it is that. It looks at the principles that Prescott Bush passed on like family heirlooms to his five children, including George H.W. Bush, the forty-first President of the United States: discipline, duty, ethics, commitment, courage, honor, honesty, loyalty, and responsibility. And it looks at the ways the Bush family legacy has made Prescott Bush, former President George Bush, George W. Bush, and Jeb Bush give themselves to public service. “My father believed in the concept of noblesse oblige,” said former President George Bush. “You made your money and you had a duty to serve the community or your country.” Written with the encouragement and enthusiasm of former President Bush, the book is a readable story of noblesse oblige in action, from the time Prescott Bush served in town government in Greenwich, Connecticut, to his career as a US Senator from Connecticut, to his role in passing far-reaching legislation in the Eisenhower years. It also deals honestly with Prescott Bush’s alleged business relationships with Nazi industrialists and other accusations. Half of the book also shows how the commitment to public service was lived out in the lives of Prescott’s children and grandchildren, focusing on his son George H.W. Bush and his grandsons George W. Bush and Jeb Bush.

For King and Country

For King and Country PDF Author: Heather Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110842936X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 591

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Was the First World War really 'For King and Country'? This is the first full history of the monarchy's role.

For Honour's Sake

For Honour's Sake PDF Author: Mark Zuehlke
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0307370585
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 474

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In the tradition of Margaret MacMillan’s Paris 1919 comes a new consideration of Canada’s most famous war and the Treaty of Ghent that unsatisfactorily concluded it, from one of this country’s premier military historians. In the Canadian imagination, the War of 1812 looms large. It was a war in which British and Indian troops prevailed in almost all of the battles, in which the Americans were unable to hold any of the land they fought for, in which a young woman named Laura Secord raced over the Niagara peninsula to warn of American plans for attack (though how she knew has never been discovered), and in which Canadian troops burned down the White House. Competing American claims insist to this day that, in fact, it was they who were triumphant. But where does the truth lie? Somewhere in the middle, as is revealed in this major new reconsideration from one of Canada’s master historians. Drawing on never-before-seen archival material, Zuehlke paints a vibrant picture of the war’s major battles, vividly re-creating life in the trenches, the horrifying day-to-day manoeuvring on land and sea, and the dramatic negotiations in the Flemish city of Ghent that brought the war to an unsatisfactory end for both sides. By focusing on the fraught dispute in which British and American diplomats quarrelled as much amongst themselves as with their adversaries, Zuehlke conjures the compromises and backroom deals that yielded conventions resonating in relations between the United States and Canada to this very day.

Home and Country

Home and Country PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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Poor Fellow My Country

Poor Fellow My Country PDF Author: Xavier Herbert
Publisher: Angus & Robertson
ISBN: 9780732299460
Category : Australia
Languages : en
Pages : 1472

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Poor Fellow My Country is an Australian classic, perhaps THE Australian classic' - The Times Literary Supplement. From Australia's oldest publisher comes the longest Australian novel ever published. The winner of the 1975 Miles Franklin Award is now back in print with a new introduction by Russell McDougall. In Poor Fellow My Country, Xavier Herbert returns to the region made his own in Capricornia: Northern Australia. Ranging over a period of some six years, the story is set during the late 1930s and early 1940s; but it is not so much a tale of this period as Herbert's analysis and indictment of the steps by which we came to the Australia of today. Herbert parallels an intimate personal narrative with a tale of approaching war and the disconnect between modern Australia and its first inhabitants. With enduring portraits of a large cast of local and international characters, Herbert paints a scene of racial, familial and political disparity. He lays bare the paradoxes of this wild land, both old and wise, young and flawed. Winner of the Miles Franklin award on first publication in 1975, Poor Fellow My Country is masterful storytelling, an epic in the truest sense. This is the decisive story of how Australia threw away her chance of becoming a true commonwealth and it is undoubtedly Herbert's supreme contribution to Australian literature. Will we ever reach the dream of 'Australia Felix' - the happy south land?

AN ANTHOLOGY BY MODERN LEGAL AUTHORS

AN ANTHOLOGY BY MODERN LEGAL AUTHORS PDF Author: Authors Of The Legal Fraternity
Publisher: Highbrow Phantom Publishing House
ISBN: 8195326536
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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We’ve decided to collaborate on this anthology on something very near and dear to our hearts, and that is the matter of law, what is legal what is right. Since the book will delve into very real, very deep social issues, we will start with a couple of poems by amazing writers who share a love for poetry. As the world continues evolving we continue encountering new and continuously more social problems that all affect and impact someone’s life regardless of race, gender, religion, or social status, one of the problems these incredible writers have addressed will very likely resonate with any reader. This collaborative work could not have been accomplished by any single author, from the very first to the very last, none of the writings is placed in any particular order. Every one of the authors wrote on a topic near to their heart and from their own life experience, this will be an amazing read, so I would suggest that any reader feel free to start up and enjoy reading from the first poem, to the last deep social issue addressed.

The Parliamentary Register

The Parliamentary Register PDF Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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The Parliamentary Debates

The Parliamentary Debates PDF Author: Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 838

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